New Alexa skill development tools reduce pain points between businesses and customers
COVID-19 HPC Consortium pours 437 petaflops of compute power toward virus research
Orbita raises $9 million to develop conversational AI for health care
Mobileye demos self-driving car that uses cameras to get around
Optimus Ride begins delivering food to families in need in Washington, D.C.
Nuro partners with CVS to deliver prescriptions in Houston
Vesta raises $125 million to fight payment fraud with AI
Google’s federated analytics method could analyze end user data without invading privacy
Autonomous car company Aurora increases hiring amid industry struggles
Baidu open-sources Paddle Quantum toolkit for AI quantum computing research
SmartRent raises $60 million to manage connected buildings
Google AI researchers want to teach robots tasks through self-supervised reverse engineering
Facebook’s AI convincingly inserts people into photos
DefinedCrowd raises $50.5 million for AI data set curation
Autonomous delivery companies stress need for clearer rules on deployment
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Researchers use predictive models to calculate more accurate COVID-19 case fatality ratios
Google brings new and updated accessibility tools to Android, Maps, and more
Facebook leverages AI to improve kids’ safety in Messenger
Clara Analytics nabs $25 million for AI that expedites workers’ compensation claims
How Instacart remade its systems to handle a 500% jump in order volume
Waymo is using AI to simulate autonomous vehicle camera data
Search engines are leveraging AI to improve their language understanding
Sphero spins out Company Six to bring robotics tech to first responders
Directly raises $11 million more to build virtual customer service agents
Nvidia researchers propose technique to transfer AI trained in simulation to the real world
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences
Microsoft acquires RPA startup Softomotive to bolster Power Automate
OpenAI’s supercomputer collaboration with Microsoft marks its biggest bet yet on AGI
Microsoft launches Project Bonsai, an AI development platform for industrial systems
Microsoft debuts WhiteNoise, an AI toolkit for differential privacy
Azure Synapse Link anchors Microsoft’s new big data analytics capabilities
Amazon’s AI tool can plan collision-free paths for 1,000 warehouse robots
DeepMind researchers develop method to efficiently teach robots tasks like grasping
DeepMind claims its AI predicts macular degeneration more accurately than experts
IBM adds noise to boost AI’s accuracy on analog memory
Facebook’s voice synthesis AI generates speech in 500 milliseconds
Researchers release data sets to train coronavirus chatbots
IBM claims its Neural Computer achieves record AI model training time
Immunai raises $20 million for AI that predicts immune response
